Mechanisms of successional dynamics: Consumers and the rise and fall of species dominance

Ecological Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 249-260

  Wootton, J Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Indirect effects; Inhibition succession; Intertidal communities; Mytilus; Nucella

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; SUCCESSION;

UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; MYTILIDAE; MYTILUS; MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS; MYTILUS EDULIS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS; NUCELLA; NUCELLA CANALICULATA; NUCELLA EMARGINATA;

EID: 0038715590     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2002.00484.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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